Cuff-clasp.



E. SCHODLBAUER.

CUFF CLASP. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25 1917.

Patented Dec. 17, 1918.

IN V EN TOR.

A TTORNE Y WITNESSES:

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. CUFF-CLASP;

T0 azz whom it may concern;

, 1 Be it known that I, ERWIN SorIooLBAUER,

a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Gulf-Clasps, of which the following is a specification.

The invention provides a safety device for personal wear, as jewelry, and aims to device a clasp to be applied to the cuff of a shirt for securing articles of eWelry thereto in a manner to prevent loss either by theft or casual displacement.

The invention provides a clasp comprising complemental member s pivotalh Y Y connected at corresponding ends andhaving their opposite ends adapteditobe securedrby snap fastening means which may be readily released by the wearer when it-is desired to or the article secured The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing andset-forth in the fol lowing description and itis to be understood that within thescope of the same, as claimed, changes may be resorted to without depart ing from thenature' thereof.

Referring to the drawingwhich shows embodiment of the invention; 7

Figure 1 is a side view of the clasp; Fig. 2 is'an elevationof one of the members as seen from the inner side;

i) Fig 3 is alike view of the companion memer; c

Fig. 4 is a section on the line i e of Fig.2

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 6 is a horizontal section on the line 66 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the clasp about actual size Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in the several views of the drawing by like reference characters.

The clasp comprises companion members 1 and 2 which are pivotally connected at corresponding ends by means of a pin 3 which passes through matching eyes of the members. The opposite ends of the members are adapted to be secured, when closed, by suitable snap fastening means comprising hooks 4 and an eye 5. The eye is formed in an offset portion 5 of the member 2 and engages the inner face of the member 1 and lies substantially parallel with the major Specification of Letters Patent.

portions of the members 1 and 2 when the said members arefastened together.

member 2 and is adapted to. overlap theinner side of the member 1 and receive the hooks 4 which are adapted to operate bya lateral movement. As clearly indicated in the" several views, the inner sides of the PatentedDec. 17, 1918.

Application fi led September 25,1917. Serial No. 193,127.

members are made hollow, the longitudinal edges being strengthened by means of in- Wardly extending. flanges.

The hooks 4 are provided at the outer ends of members 8 which are reduced intermediate of their ends to enable such members to yield by a spring actionso that the hooks 4 may be pressed together when clearing the eye 5, both in the closing or the opening of the clasp. The spring members ,8 are com nected at their inner ends to the member 1 in a manner to admit oftheir outer ends moving laterally so as to provide for proper action ofthe hooks 4. In the preferable construction, the hooks lconstitute an in-',

edges of the member 1. Cross pieces 10 and i 11 are disposed near opposite ends of the member 1 and. are connected at their outer ends toopposite longitudinal flanges and the spaces formed between such cross pieces and the member 1 receive the spring members 8, as indicated most clearly in Fig. 4, thereby retaining the spring members in proper position. The spring action of the members 8 may be reinforecd by means of a spring 12 which is of substantially U shape and is fitted in the cutaway inner sides of the members 8, as shown most clearly in Fig. 2. The cutaway portions of the spring members 8 are undercut, as indicated most clearly in Fig. 6 and receive the spring 12, thereby serving to hold such spring in position.

The hooks t project laterally from 'the members 8 so as to pass through the eye 5 and engage with the latter and hold the members 1 and 2 when closed. Finger s pieces13 project outwardly'from the membore 8 near the extremities provided with the hooks 4 and are adapted to be pressed upon to bring the hooks 4 together so as to clear the eye 5 and admit of the clasp being opened by separating the ends of the members 1 and 2 opposite from the pivotally connected ends thereof. The outer ends of the hooks 4 are beveled so as to ride'upon opposite ends or sides of the eye 5 when closing-the'members land 2, thereby admitting also provided with an eye spaced slightly from said opening, spring members carried by the' member which carries said projection and'provided witlrhooks adapted to spring into said eye, and a" pair 'ofvfinger pieces projecting laterallythrough the correspondin member from said spri'ngn1emhers-where y the latter maybe pressed; upon to-efl'eot a release-of said hooks from said eye,

2. A clasp comprising separable-members pivotally connected at correspondingends, one member at its free end having an opening therein and an offset portion provided with an eye adjacent said opening, the other member at its free end having a projection which enters said opening when the me'm bers are forced together to prevent lateral displacement of the members when they are fastened together, and spring members carried by one of the members and provided withprojections adapted to enter the aforesaideye and thereby fasten the free ends of separablemembers together.

3. A clasp comprising two members piv- Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. (3,

otally connected together at corresponding ends, one of said members at its free end having an offset portion provided with an eye, fastening means carried by one of the members and having portions adapted to enter said eye and thereby fasten the free ends of the members together, the major portions of said members lying in parallel relation when the members are fastened together with said oflset portion in parallelism with the major portions of said members and against the inner face of one of said members.

4. In a clasp comprising separable members, fastening means therefor including oppositely disposed members provided with hooks andreceiving means therefor and also including finger pleces having their inner sides undercut and a spring of substantially U form disposed between the spring mem hers-and retained in placeby the undercut portions thereof.

'5; clasp comprisingseparable members, one of such -members having spaced cross piecesnearopposite ends, spriugjmembers disposed in thespaces formed between the cross pieces andthemember to whichsaid cross pieces are connectedand securedat one-end to one of such cross pieces and provided at theiropposite ends withho'oks and withrece1ving means therefor and ,finger pieces. v 6. A clasp comprising companion mombers, one of suchmembers having, inner Commissioner 0! Patents, 

